The Seven Storey Mountain

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A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is likely one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in some of the demanding Catholic orders–the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. The Seven Storey Mountain has been a favorite of readers ranging from Graham Greene to Claire Booth Luce, Eldridge Cleaver, and Frank McCourt. Since its original publication this timeless spiritual tome has been published in over twenty languages and has touched millions of lives.

In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man made up our minds to surrender a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to develop into some of the influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life with a purpose to find it. Thomas Merton’s first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Even supposing his conversionary piety on occasion falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton’s autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, alternatively, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: “I seek to speak to you, one way or the other, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.” –Michael Joseph Gross

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